warre

English

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Noun

warre (countable and uncountable, plural warres)

1. Obsolete spelling of war.
   • 1572, George Gascoigne, "Dulce Bellum Inexpertis"

     The Poets olde in their fonde fables faine, / That mightie Mars is god of Warre and Strife, / These astronomers thinke, where Mars doth raigne, / That all debate and discorde must he rife,

   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

     Out Of Civil States, There Is Alwayes Warre Of Every One Against Every One

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